[squid-users] Re: Change of defaults in squid.conf

For a start "make install" does not install a new configuration file if
there is already one.

Second, a custom squid.conf can easily be installed with a

  cp your_custom_file.conf /path/to/squid.conf

just after you have run "make install".

I DO NOT recommend running with the full default squid.conf in
production. Your squid.conf should be cleaned up to only contain the
configuration directives you need, not the documentation. It also needs
to be adopted to your servers.

In many cases squid.conf is server name netural, and the same config can
be used on multiple identical servers.

No, the "make install" procedure does not support installation of custom
squid.conf versions, nor is there a way to selectively customize the
config before "make install", and I do not see it as a feature which
would benefit Squid if added. Such customizations are very easily done
outside the "make install" procedure, and need to be quite specific to
your needs anyway which a generic approach are not very likely to be.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Parimi, Venkateshwara Rao wrote:
> 
> Hi Henrick,
> My question is to be more clear, i have 3 domains and need to install squid
> on 3 servers.
> I want to make some changes in configure or some other file such that when i
> make and install
> the squid the configuration should be customised one. I don't want to edit
> and customise squid.conf file manually.
> Is there any way to change args of configure or changes can be made to
> makefile to get this kind of result.
> 
> Thanks
> -Venkatesh.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:38 AM
> To: Parimi, Venkateshwara Rao
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] no-cache is not working
> 
> Not sure what you are asking, but I presume the easies method is to
> install a custom (and much shorter without all that comments) squid.conf
> file.
> 
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Squid hacker
> 
> Parimi, Venkateshwara Rao wrote:
> >
> > Hi Henrick,
> > Got updated squid to version 2.4.STABLE1 , thanx for your info.
> > Shall i know is there a way i can change configure file or something to
> > change the default values of squid.conf file
> > while make and install squid?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > -Venkatesh.
> >